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5. Mai 2014 · Gary Becker was the most important social scientist in the past 50 years and possibly longer, in my view. He was my intellectual hero, and I want to explain why. To Gary, who died on...
Gary Stanley Becker war ein US-amerikanischer Ökonom und Soziologe. Er erhielt 1992 den Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften „für seine Ausdehnung der mikroökonomischen Theorie auf einen weiten Bereich menschlichen Verhaltens und menschlicher Zusammenarbeit“.
Gary Stanley Becker (/ ˈ b ɛ k ər /; December 2, 1930 – May 3, 2014) was an American economist who received the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago , and was a leader of the third generation of the Chicago school of economics .
Gary Becker applied economic theories and approaches to areas that had previously only been addressed in sociology, demography, and criminology. Becker's starting point was that actors act rationally to maximize specific goals, like advantage or wealth. In the 1950s and 1960s he applied his models in several areas: investments in people's ...
29. Apr. 2024 · Gary S. Becker was an American economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1992. He applied the methods of economics to aspects of human behaviour previously considered more or less the exclusive domain of sociology, criminology, anthropology, and demography. Becker was educated at.
Gary Becker’s Nobel Prize–winning work broke new ground by crossing disciplinary boundaries and applying economic principles to answer pressing questions about human behavior. Published in 1957, The Economics of Discrimination examined racial discrimination from the perspective of markets.
The book contains the first systematic effort to use economic theory to analyze the effects of prejudice on the earnings, employment and occupations of minorities. It started me down the path of applying economics to social issues, a path that I have continued to follow.
